"Private Eye Private Eye is a British fortnightly satirical and current affairs news magazine, founded in 1961. It is published in London and has been edited by Ian Hislop since 1986. The publication is widely recognised for its prominent criticism and lampooning of public figures. It is also known for its in-depth investigative journalism into under-reported scandals and cover-ups. ""Private Eye"" is Britain's best-selling current affairs magazine, and such is its long-term popularity and impact that many of its recurring in-jokes have entered popular culture. The magazine bucks the trend of declining circulation for print media, having recorded its highest"
"The Daily Mash The Daily Mash is a British satirical website providing parodic commentary on current affairs and other news stories. Neil Rafferty (a former political correspondent for ""The Sunday Times"") and Paul Stokes (former business editor of ""The Scotsman""), created the website in 2007 and remain the lead writers. Both writers earn salaries from the enterprise and also employ freelance contributors. The publication has garnered praise for its absurd, scatological humour and insightful political satire. The current editor is comedy writer and former BBC journalist Tim Telling. The Daily Mash has often been compared to the US publication ""The"
"The Satirist The Satirist, or the Censor of the Times was a controversial 19th century British newspaper which featured reports of scandals involving well known residents of London. It was published by Barnard Gregory, who faced multiple libel charges and was later imprisoned due to its articles. ""The Satirist"" was frequently criticised by commentators, and James Hain Friswell described it as a ""poor imitation of ""Town and Country"""". ""The Satirist"" was first published on April 10, 1831, at that time it cost 7d. It was published weekly and released on Sundays. The paper became notorious for the allegations it published"
"general election on the recommendation of polling data from its readers. The Sunday People The Sunday People is a British tabloid Sunday newspaper, founded as The People on 16 October 1881. It was bought by the Mirror group in 1961 along with the ""Daily Herald"". It is now published by Reach plc, and shares a website with the Mirror papers. In July 2011, when it benefited from the closure of the ""News of the World"", it had an average Sunday circulation of 806,544. By December 2016 the circulation had shrunk to 239,364. Despite its tagline claim to be a ""truly"
"Right Now! (magazine) Right Now! was a right-wing British political magazine, which ran from 1993 to 2006. The magazine also featured arts coverage and cultural criticism. It proclaimed itself a magazine of ""politics, ideas and culture"". It was initially edited by Michael Harrison (an associate of Lady Birdwood), and then from 1995 until closure by Derek Turner. Contributing editors included Allan Robertson and Christopher Luke of the London Swinton Circle and Stuart Millson of the Conservative Democratic Alliance. Its origins lay in the Revolutionary Conservative Caucus and with right-wing members of the Monday Club. The magazine featured interviews with and"
"Private Eye books ""Private Eye"", the fortnightly British satirical magazine, has published various books and other material separately from the magazine since 1962. The principal publications are anthologies, for example the Private Eye Annual, and ongoing series such as the Colemanballs collections (in even-numbered years), and diaries of the Prime Minister. ""The Private Eye Annual"" has been published in a variety of forms since the early 1970s and traditionally contains reprints from the middle section of the magazine; satirical articles and cartoons. The magazine has reprinted several hard-hitting articles and made them available as separate pamphlets. One such article was"
"Vive Charlie Vive Charlie is a British online satirical magazine launched in January 2015 during the immediate aftermath of the ""Charlie Hebdo"" massacre. It has no connection to the French title. On 4 June 2015, the cover of ""Vive Charlie"" issue 15 was featured in the sport section of the ""Daily Telegraph"". In the article, ""Sepp Blatter resigns: How the world's media reacted to shock announcement"", ""Vive Charlie"" was included in its choice of the best front and back pages from leading newspapers and magazines around the world. ""Vive Charlie"" was co-founded anonymously, using pseudonyms, by the satirist Jihadist Joe"
"Marxism Today Marxism Today, published between 1957 and 1991, was the theoretical magazine of the Communist Party of Great Britain. The magazine was headquartered in London. It was particularly important during the 1980s under the editorship of Martin Jacques. Through ""Marxism Today"", Jacques is sometimes credited with coining the term Thatcherism, and believed they were deconstructing the ideology of the government of the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher, through their theory of New Times. It was also a venue for the influential British Cultural Studies of Stuart Hall. It was the standard-bearer for the ""reformist"" wing"
"The Sunday People The Sunday People is a British tabloid Sunday newspaper, founded as The People on 16 October 1881. It was bought by the Mirror group in 1961 along with the ""Daily Herald"". It is now published by Reach plc, and shares a website with the Mirror papers. In July 2011, when it benefited from the closure of the ""News of the World"", it had an average Sunday circulation of 806,544. By December 2016 the circulation had shrunk to 239,364. Despite its tagline claim to be a ""truly independent"" newspaper, ""The People"" endorsed the Labour Party at the 2015"
"The Sketch The Sketch was a British illustrated weekly journal, which focused on high society and the aristocracy. It ran for 2,989 issues between 1 February 1893 and 17 June 1959. It was published by the Illustrated London News Company and was primarily a society magazine with regular features on royalty and the aristocracy, theatre, cinema and art studies. It had a high photographic content with many studies of society ladies and their children as well as regular layouts of point to point racing meetings and similar events. Clement Shorter and William Ingram started ""The Sketch"" in 1893. Shorter was"
"The Contemporary Review The Contemporary Review is a British biannual, formerly quarterly, magazine. It has an uncertain future as of 2013. The magazine was established in 1866 by Alexander Strahan and a group of intellectuals anxious to promote intelligent and independent opinion about the great issues of their day. They intended it to be the church-minded counterpart And in May 1877 published an article on the ""Ethics of Belief"" from a distinguished Cambridge Don on moral skepticism in law and philosophy. Prof Clifford developed scientific theories on metaphysical beliefs, rationalism, and the empirical value of scientific enquiry that underpinned advanced"
"Socialist Review The Socialist Review is the monthly magazine of the British Socialist Workers Party. As well as being printed it is also published online. The ""Socialist Review"" began its life in 1950 as the main publication of the Socialist Review Group (SRG). It began as a duplicated magazine, the parent group only being able to afford to have it printed from 1954 onwards. In its last years it lost its central importance to the SRG due to the launch in 1960 of a new journal ""International Socialism"" and in 1961 a newspaper, ""Industrial Worker"" that then became ""Labour Worker"""
"Esquire (UK Edition) ""Esquire Magazine"" (UK edition) is a monthly magazine for men originally owned by the ""National Magazine Company"" (since 2011, following a merger, renamed ""Hearst Magazines UK""), a subsidiary of the US-based Hearst Corporation. The first edition was published Spring/Summer 1991. The magazine features articles on luxe design and culture, food, business and technology, style, music and books. It is pitched at a similarly upscale audience to ""GQ"", attempting to offer a more adult read than lad mags like ""Maxim"" and ""FHM"". Each month, ""Esquire Magazine"" features famous celebrities on its cover: recent cover girls have included Katy"
"History Today History Today is an illustrated history magazine. Published monthly in London since January 1951, it presents serious and authoritative history to as wide a public as possible. The magazine covers all periods and geographical regions and publishes articles of traditional narrative history alongside new research and historiography. A sister publication History Review, produced tri-annually until April 2012, provided information for sixth-form history students. Founded by Brendan Bracken, Minister of Information after the Second World War, chairman of the ""Financial Times"" and lieutenant to Sir Winston Churchill, the magazine has been independently owned since 1981. The founding co-editors were"
"Punch (magazine) Punch; or, The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 1850s, when it helped to coin the term ""cartoon"" in its modern sense as a humorous illustration. It was well known for it's regular racist depiction of the Irish people. After the 1940s, when its circulation peaked, it went into a long decline, closing in 1992. It was revived in 1996, but closed again in 2002. ""Punch"" was founded on 17 July 1841 by Henry"
"Socialist Standard Socialist Standard is a monthly socialist magazine published without interruption since September 1904 by the Socialist Party of Great Britain. The magazine is written in a simple, direct style and focuses mainly on socialist advocacy and Marxian analysis of current events, particularly those affecting the United Kingdom. Some articles have been published in party pamphlets. The first editor was Robert Elrick. The Standard has also carried translations of continental writers. Under the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 it was placed on a secret list of papers and magazines banned for export during World War I, for its"
"in 1862), satirist Ambrose Bierce, G. R. Sims and especially W. S. Gilbert, whose Bab Ballads were almost all published in its pages, among other articles, poems, illustrations and drama criticism over a ten-year period. Cartoonists included Arthur Boyd Houghton, Matt Morgan and James Francis Sullivan (1852–1936). The ""Fun"" gang frequented the Arundel Club, the Savage Club, and especially Evans's café, where they had a table in competition with the ""Punch"" 'Round table'. Even though ""Fun"" was seen as liberal in comparison with the increasingly conservative ""Punch"", it could cast satirical scorn or praise on either side of the political"
"New Society New Society was a weekly magazine of social inquiry and social and cultural comment, published in the United Kingdom from 1962 to 1988. It drew on the disciplines of sociology, anthropology, psychology, human geography, social history and social policy, and it published wide-ranging social reportage. The magazine was launched by a small, London-based independent publishing house, Harrison Raison, which in 1956 had successfully launched ""New Scientist"", a weekly magazine to serve the natural sciences. The idea was to create a comparable magazine about the social sciences. The cultural commentator Robert Hewison wrote that ""New Society"" became ""a forum"
"boom went on to establish subsequently more serious careers as writers including Alan Bennett (drama), Jonathan Miller (polymathic), and Paul Foot (investigative journalism). In his book ""The Neophiliacs"" Christopher Booker, who as a founding editor of ""Private Eye"" was a central figure of the satire boom, charts the years 1959 to 1964. He begins with the Cambridge Footlights student revue ""The Last Laugh"" written by Bird and Cook. It transferred to a West End theatre. Booker ends the period with the cancellation of the television series ""That Was The Week That Was"", and the closing of the Establishment Club. The"
"Vanity Fair (UK magazine) The second Vanity Fair was a British weekly magazine that was published from 1868 to 1914. Subtitled ""A Weekly Show of Political, Social and Literary Wares"", it was founded by Thomas Gibson Bowles, who aimed to expose the contemporary vanities of Victorian society. The first issue appeared in London on 7 November 1868. It offered its readership articles on fashion, current events, the theatre, books, social events and the latest scandals, together with serial fiction, word games and other trivia. Bowles wrote much of the magazine himself under various pseudonyms, such as ""Jehu Junior"", but contributors"
"issue (Summer 1946). The title is a Scottish word meaning ""vagrant"". The magazine sold for 1s.9d. and carried articles on literature, poetry, music, and philosophy. Gangrel (magazine) Gangrel was a short-lived quarterly literary magazine published in the United Kingdom. It was edited by J. B. Pick and Charles Neill. The first issue of ""Gangrel"" appeared in October 1945. The magazine was based in London and was published on a quarterly basis. Running to a total of four issues between 1945 and 1946, it included articles by Alfred Perles, Henry Miller, Robert Simpson, Neil M. Gunn, Rayner Heppenstall and George Orwell,"
"Gangrel (magazine) Gangrel was a short-lived quarterly literary magazine published in the United Kingdom. It was edited by J. B. Pick and Charles Neill. The first issue of ""Gangrel"" appeared in October 1945. The magazine was based in London and was published on a quarterly basis. Running to a total of four issues between 1945 and 1946, it included articles by Alfred Perles, Henry Miller, Robert Simpson, Neil M. Gunn, Rayner Heppenstall and George Orwell, as well as poems by Lawrence Durrell, R. S. Thomas, James Kirkup and Kenneth Patchen. Orwell's famous essay ""Why I Write"" appeared in the last"
"and Alex Callinicos. The second series was originally edited by Peter Binns who was succeeded as editor by John Rees. Previously, a single issue of a duplicated journal of this name had been published in 1958 and the first edition of Tony Cliff's essay on Rosa Luxemburg was published, in book form, as issue 2/3 in series with this otherwise one off publication. International Socialism (magazine) International Socialism is a British-based quarterly journal established in 1960 and published in London by the Socialist Workers Party which discusses socialist theory. It is currently edited by Alex Callinicos, who took over in"
"Poot! Poot! was an adult British comics magazine which ran between 1985 and 1990. It had the tagline ""silly cartoons and smart-arse satire for grown ups"". The first edition was published in 1985 with a run of 500 copies. The comic grew to around 50,000 per issue up until the time of its cessation in 1990, due to the publishers getting proper jobs and the distributor going bust. Publication resumed in September 2009 after a gap of 19 years for a further two years until the new distributor went bust as well. ""Poot!"" billed itself as ""Probably Britain's silliest comic""."
"The Kaleidoscope The Kaleidoscope; or, Literary and Scientific Mirror was an English weekly published between 1818 and 1831 by the Liverpool publisher Egerton Smith (1774-1841), who had established the ""Liverpool Mercury"" in 1811. The magazine's name was taken from David Brewster's recent invention. The first number appeared on July 28, 1818 in folio form; two years later the publication became an eight-page quarto. The price was kept at threepence-halfpenny throughout the magazine's history. An anonymous writer for the ""British Quarterly Review"" suggested that the ""Kaleidoscope"" was Britain's first cheap weekly miscellany: ""It consisted of slight original and selected articles in"
"Hilda Cowham, Annie Fish, John Hargrave, John Hassall, Phil May, Bernard Partridge, Melton Prior, W. Heath Robinson, Sidney Sime, Josep Segrelles and Bert Thomas. Writers included Carleton Allen, Lucie Armstrong, Nora Hopper, William Robertson Nicoll, and John Courtenay Trewin. The British Library holds a complete run of ""The Sketch"". The Sketch The Sketch was a British illustrated weekly journal, which focused on high society and the aristocracy. It ran for 2,989 issues between 1 February 1893 and 17 June 1959. It was published by the Illustrated London News Company and was primarily a society magazine with regular features on royalty"
"as ""sick comedians"". In the same period, Paul Krassner's magazine ""The Realist"" began publication, to become immensely popular during the 1960s and early 1970s among people in the counterculture; it had articles and cartoons that were savage, biting satires of politicians such as Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, the Vietnam War, the Cold War and the War on Drugs. This baton was also carried by the original National Lampoon magazine, edited by Doug Kenney and Henry Beard and featuring blistering satire written by Michael O'Donoghue, P.J. O'Rourke, and Tony Hendra, among others. Prominent satiric stand-up comedian George Carlin acknowledged the"
"True"", called for a boycott of the magazine, which was supported by evolutionary biologists Richard Dawkins and P.Z. Myers. New Scientist New Scientist, first published on 22 November 1956, is a weekly, English-language magazine that covers all aspects of science and technology. ""New Scientist"", based in London, publishes editions in the UK, the United States, and Australia. Since 1996 it has been available online. Sold in retail outlets (paper edition) and on subscription (paper and/or online), the magazine covers news, features, reviews and commentary on science, technology and their implications. ""New Scientist"" also publishes speculative articles, ranging from the technical"
"Manchester. In 1957 it introduced the Andy Capp cartoon, created by Reg Smythe from Hartlepool, in the northern editions. The ""Mirror"" mass working class readership had made it the United Kingdom's best-selling daily tabloid newspaper. In 1960, it acquired the ""Daily Herald"" (the popular daily of the labour movement) when it bought Odhams, in one of a series of takeovers which created the International Publishing Corporation (IPC). The ""Mirror"" management did not want the ""Herald"" competing with the ""Mirror"" for readers, and in 1964, relaunched it as a mid-market paper, now named ""The Sun"". When it failed to win readers,"
"Recurring in-jokes in Private Eye The fortnightly British satirical magazine ""Private Eye"" has long had a reputation for using euphemistic and irreverent substitute names and titles for people, groups and organisations and has coined a number of expressions to describe sex, drugs, alcohol and other aspects of human activity. Over the years these names and expressions have become in-jokes, used frequently in the magazine without explanation. Some have passed into general usage and can be found in other media and everyday conversation. ""From the message boards"" is a parody of on-line discussion threads (especially those of BBC Radio 5 Live)"
"Patricia d’Ardenne and Sheila Osmanovic, Robbie Scott, Patrick Mulcahy and Tehmina Kazi. Chartist (magazine) Chartist is a bi-monthly democratic socialist magazine which has been published in Britain since the 1970s. The magazine is based in London. The magazine's editorial policy is firmly aligned with the ""democratic socialist left"" within the Labour Party, supporting such causes as the Grassroots Alliance slate in Labour National Executive Committee elections and the Save The Labour Party initiative. Its readership and editorial board are not confined, however, to the Labour Party or any one of its factions. This is because it seeks to invite debate"
"Year; Rescue Dig of the Year; and Book of the Year. Current Archaeology Current Archaeology is a British monthly archaeology magazine. ""Current Archaeology"" describes itself as the ""United Kingdom's best selling archaeology magazine"", a claim substantiated by British Archaeological Jobs and Resources online, which labels the title ""Britain's favourite archaeology magazine"". It was founded in 1967 by Andrew Selkirk, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and the present editor-in-chief. Issue 1 was mailed free of charge to university academics and archaeologists, with invitations to become subscribers from Issue 2. The magazine now has more than 14,000 subscribers worldwide. From"
"Fun (magazine) Fun was a Victorian weekly magazine, first published on 21 September 1861. The magazine was founded by the actor and playwright H. J. Byron in competition with ""Punch"" magazine. ""Fun"" ceased publication in 1901, when it was absorbed into ""Sketchy Bits"". Like ""Punch"", the journal published satiric verse and parodies, as well as political and literary criticism, sports and travel information. These were often illustrated or accompanied by topical cartoons (often of a political nature). The ""Punch"" mascot, Mr. Punch, and his dog Toby were lampooned by Fun's jester, Mr. Fun, and his cat. The magazine was aimed"